2018 convention schedule as I know it

[mrissa]

I posted this on Twitter, but Twitter is a less durable medium. Here is what I know of my 2018 convention plans.

January: Detroit: ConFusion. I have already gotten my flights for this. I am going in on Thursday afternoon and leaving Monday late morning, to maximize shenanigan potential. If other people are not around for shenanigans at a particular time, I will cocoon in my hotel room and write. Win/win.

June: Minneapolis: Fourth Street Fantasy

July: Boston: Readercon

October: Montreal: Scintillation. So let's talk about this one a minute. It's why I'm making this post right now instead of a different time. I've talked about Farthing Party; this is the new and improved Farthing II: Farthing Harder, more or less. Why is it a Kickstarter right now? Because there is not a large organization bearing the burden of cost. It is being run by Jo Walton personally, and in years past Jo had to ask herself, gosh, will we have enough people to make it financially viable, will I lose my own personal money that I use for eating in doing this, etc. And it was not--what's the word--oh yes: fun. It was not fun to wonder that. So! There is now a Kickstarter model for people to say, yes, actually I would like to commit in advance so that you do not have to have that nonfun in the process of making this fun thing, please and thank you.

So! Montreal in October, lovely time for chocolat chaud. Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to be inner circle to Jo to make it to this con! (Or me, or Fran or Ruthanna or Sherwood or Ada or Greer or Alison or Alter. Or anyone else who is coming but has not officially committed to coming in a public sort of way.) It is for persons of goodwill who want to go to a small, intimate conventiony thing in Montreal in October. So you can think about that. Sometimes you can even think with your Kickstarter support.

Comments

[arkessian]

I would so love to come to Scintillation, but I don't think it's going to be possible, alas.

[mrissa]

Sigh.

[jesse_the_k]

That sounds like several large horizon-spoiling cylinders of gas. Wish I could make it.

[mrissa]

Sigh.

[ckd]

My only regret across these is that I didn't know you'd be at ConFusion and potentially shenanigans-able on Thursday or I might have timed my arrival differently. (OTOH, an extra night in Boston instead, so I'll probably wind up having different shenanigans with different people.)

OTOH, I hope to be able to stay for Fourth Street Fish (and ice cream) this time.

[umadoshi]

Scintillation sounds SO NEAT, and is even on my side of the border. I haven't yet even started thinking about whether actually attending is feasible for me, but I'm so pleased that it's happening. ^_^

[mrissa]

I am so excited.

[carbonel]

I'm planning to attend (and have accordingly supported the Kickstarter), though it means at least two and possibly three conventions on subsequent weekends.

I just hope I can find an affordable plane fare to Montreal.

[mrissa]

What are your other autumn conventions?

[carbonel]

The one that's the weekend after Scintillation is Federation, a spinners and weavers retreat in Alexandria, MN. I've been attending pretty much since I started spinning, and for the last several years I've been organizing door prizes. (Part of the tradition is that everyone gets a door prize. My goal when I took over the job was to make it so everyone got something they actually wanted. This is a fair amount of work, but the results are worth it.)

The TBD autumn convention is the Minn-stf fallcon. If next year's is the same as this year's date, it'll conflict with Scintillation. I'm hoping the chair will see fit to pick a different weekend, since I'm likely not to be the only potential fallcon attendee to want to attend Scintillation.

Also, I'm taking a two-week train trip across the country (and back) with Pat WINODW in August. That's not quite fall, but it's already turning out to be a factor in other future planning.